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GitHub Essentials

By : Achilleas Pipinellis
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GitHub Essentials

By: Achilleas Pipinellis

Overview of this book

<p><span id="description" class="sugar_field">Whether you are an experienced developer or a novice, learning to work with Version Control Systems is a must in the software development world. Git is the most popular tool for that purpose and GitHub was built around it leveraging its powers by bringing it to the web.</span></p> <p><span id="description" class="sugar_field">Starting with the basics of creating a repository you will then learn how to manage the issue tracker, the place where discussion about your project takes place. Continuing our journey we will explore how to use the wiki and write rich documentation that will accompany your project. Organization and team management will be the next stop and then onto the feature that made GitHub so well known, Pull Requests. Next we focus on creating simple web pages hosted on GitHub and lastly we explore the settings that are configurable for a user and a repository.</span></p>
Table of Contents (13 chapters)

GitHub Pages


At the end of the year 2008, GitHub announced GitHub Pages (https://github.com/blog/272-github-pages), a static-site hosting service. Static sites have met a great rise during the past years and GitHub played a big part in it. A static site is a site that contains pages written in HTML, CSS, and Javascript. No server code, such as php, ruby, and Python is included.

In an interesting post on April 27, 2015 (https://github.com/blog/1992-eight-lessons-learned-hacking-on-github-pages-for-six-months), GitHub released some statistics of the GitHub page usage over time:

The growth is exponential and shows that a great deal of users trust GitHub to host their personal or organization sites.

User, organization, and project pages

In order to create a functional website hosted on GitHub Pages, you must follow some conventions.

For users and organizations, a repository named username.github.io must be created, where username is your username or organization name, and files must be pushed to...